President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele and Trump administration officials tore into CNN reporter Kaitlin Collins after she asked if there are plans to return to the United States an illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member who was recently deported.

The exchange came as Trump hosted Bukele in the Oval Office on Monday, with the two discussing immigration and the ongoing agreement between the two nations, which allows the United States to deport criminal illegal aliens to an El Salvadoran prison facility.

Collins questioned President Donald Trump on the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien and suspected MS-13 member who was deported to El Salvador and is now being held in the country’s Terrorism Confinement Center, a massive prison holding tens of thousands of cartel and gang members.

Garcia’s case was considered by the Supreme Court, which ruled that the United States must facilitate Garcia’s return if El Salvador wished to send him back to the United States.

Collins asked if there were any plans to return Garcia to the United States, with the president directing the question to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Bondi explained that Garcia was not only an illegal alien, but that multiple courts concluded that he was a member of MS-13.

“He was illegally in our country … and in 2019, two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court, ruled that he was a member of MS-13,” Bondi charged in response to the question. “That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him, that’s not up to us,” Bondi said before going on to explain that the Supreme Court ruling doesn’t require the United States to return Garcia, but only to facilitate his return if it was requested by El Salvador.

JUST IN: President Trump has multiple members of his admin take turns ripping CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after she asked why an alleged MS-13 member was deported to El Salvador.

Lmao.

Pam Bondi, Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, as well as Nayib Bukele all ripped the media after Collins… pic.twitter.com/R7Y2ZOSt37

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Bukele quickly noted that he would not be returning Garcia, who is a citizen of El Salvador, nor would he release him from the prison to live freely in the Central American country.

“The question is preposterous, how can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” Bukele retorted. “I’m not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country … we just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the western hemisphere and you want us to go back?” he added. “That’s not going to happen.”

“Well they’d love to have criminals released into our country,” President Trump chimed in. “These are sick people.”

United States Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller also shot back at Collins, reprimanding her for suggesting how a foreign nation should address issues concerning their own citizens. “It is very arrogant, even for American media, to suggest that we would tell El Salvador how to handle their own citizens,” Miller charged. He went on to explain that, since Trump designated MS-13 as a foreign terror organization, the illegal alien “was no longer eligible for any form of immigration relief in the United States.”

“No version of this legally ends up with him ever living here because he is a citizen of El Salvador,” Miller added.

Collins was slammed by yet another Trump administration official when Secretary of State Marco Rubio reaffirmed that the foreign policy operations of the United States are not decided by the courts.

“I don’t understand what the confusion is. This individual is a citizen of El Salvador. He was illegally in the United States and was returned to his country,” Rubio said. “No court in the United States has the right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States. It’s that simple. End of story.”